Jason Schultz
Staff Attorney,
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Wednesday, October 27, 2004 | 1:00AM–1:00AM
Acacia and Beyond–the Growing Threat of Abusive Patents
Abusive patents and a broken patent system present an ever-increasing threat to the use of technology in higher education. One company, Acacia Research, recently sent out more than 4,000 letters to colleges and universities across the country, threatening them with patent infringement lawsuits over use of streaming media for educational purposes. Others companies appear to be adopting similar tactics and may target higher education in the future. What can higher education do about this problem? Join Jason Schultz, intellectual property counsel at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, for an overview of the Acacia situation and a discussion about how to approach these and other patently offensive threats to the future of learning.